Lonicera maackii
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Common Name: Amur Honeysuckle
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: Plantae |
Phylum: Tracheophyta |
Class: Magnoliopsida |
Order: Dipsacales |
Family: Caprifoliaceae |
Genus: Lonicera |
Species: Lonicera maackii |
Conservation Status
Identifying Features
Honeysuckles have brown, flakey bark on a thick woody shrub. The leaves are opposite and simple, rounded, and toothless.
Habitat & Range
This species is native to parts of Asia, and is invasive in North America.
Life Cycle
Flowers have 5 petals.
Fruit are small orange to red berries paired at the leaf axils.
Related
Lonicera canadensis
American Fly Honeysuckle
Dipsacus sylvestris
Teasel
Sambucus canadensis
Elderberry